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LH101 - U.S. Light Vessel No.51. Length 118.10. Beam 26’.9. Draft 12’. Tonnage. 375 displ. Steel hull & fastenings. 2 masts with lantern galleries. 2 lights each with a cluster of 4 gimballed electric light lanterns. Back up oil lanterns also fitted. This is the first Light Vessel to have a steel hull & electric lights. Includes hand operated steam whistle. Stationed. 1892-1894 Cornfield Pt. CT. 1894-1908 Sandy Hook, New York. Drawing depicts rigging plan showing arrangement of electric lights etc. Retd. 1919. Age 27.

LH102 - U.S. Light Vessels No. 52, 53 & 54 are sister ships with No. 51. Each one has slight differences, though all were built at the  same time in the same yard.

No 52. Had an iron hull & fastenings. One of the first 4 light vessels to have the hawsepipe through the stern and aligned with the center line of the vessel. Stationed at Fenwick Island Shoal (DE)  Retd. 1931 Age 39.

No.53. Steam screw  single compound condensing engine. 2 Scotch boilers. Max. speed 6 knots. Coal capacity  52 tons. Also rigged for sail. 2 lanterns  each with  8 oil lamps. 12 steam whistle Stationed. Stone Horse Shoal (MA) Retd. 1951. Age 59.

No.54. Iron hull & fastenings. 2 lanterns each with oil lamps & reflectors. Fog signal., 12”: steam chime whistle. Hand operated bell. Stationed. 1892-1894. Nantucket . New South Shoal. 1894-1940. Boston. Retd. 1946. Age 54.

LH105 - Cut-away line drawings of the U.S. Light House Tenders “Lilac” & “Columbine” published in 1891. Dimensions of each: Length. 155’. Beam.26’6”. Draft. 15.2 & Displacement 643 tons. Image size of drawings 9½X22 inches.

The following maps of Light House Districts are from “The Annual Report of the Light House Board.” 1880-1882.

Each map includes a reference table indicating the different varieties of lights, and the arc of illumination. The maps depict the lighthouses and light beacons along the coasts and rivers in each Light House District. Map sizes 8X10 inches with light printed color.

LH106 - 1st. Lighthouse District Depicts the U.S. East Coast from the St. Croix Lighthouse in New Brunswick, Canada down to Maine & Petit Manan Light to Owls Head Lt, Sequin Lt. Half Way Rock, Cape Elizabeth Lt. and Portland Head Lt. & down to the Knubble & Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Newburyport, Mass. Includes dozens of Lighthouses along the coast and into the rivers. Finely detailed. 

LH107 - 2nd. Lighthouse District Depicts the Massachusetts coast from Newburyport Harbor Light to Marblehead Lt, & Boston . Continues to Plymouth Lt, & Cape Cod Bay and the Cape. Shows Nantucket Sound with Nantucket and Martha’s Vineyard.Locates East Chop Lt, Chatham & Monomoy Lt. Vineyard Sound & Buzzards Bay. Gay Head Lt. & the Nantucket New South Shoal Light Ship. Includes dozens of Lighthouses & beacons throughout the region which was always hazardous to shipping approaching the coast. 

LH108 - 3rd. Lighthouse District depicts the coast from Narragansett Bay in Rhode Island including Dutch Island & Newport Lights, Beaver Tail Light & the Brenton’s Reef Light Ship. Shows Point Judith & Watch Hill Lights & the Connecticut Coast with Long Island Sound. Includes all of Long Island with many lights & Block Island Sound. The chart continues to New York Harbor & Bay, with the Sandy Hook Lightship & the wreck of the Scotland Lightship off the New Jersey coast & depicts the Light at Naversink & the Chapel Hill Light. 

LH109 - 4th. Lighthouse District depicts the New Jersey Coast from Barnegat & Absecom Lights to Hereford Inlet Light & Cape May & Delaware Bay. Shows many lights in the Delaware River below Philadelphia & includes the coast of Virginia to Assateague Light & the Winter Quarter Shoal Lightship.

LH110 - 5th. Lighthouse District depicts the coasts of Maryland, Virginia & North Carolina from Havre de Grace, Maryland & Fishing Battery Light to Baltimore & the Chesapeake & Washington , D.C. with Lights all along rivers & river entrances, down to York & Cape Charles in Virginia. Chart continues to Cape Henry Lt, North Carolina & Currituck Light to Croatan Light, Pamlico Pt. Lt, to Hatteras Light, Ocracoke Light & Cape Lookout Light.

LH111 - 6th. Lighthouse District depicts the coast from South Carolina, to Georgia & Florida. Shows the New River Inlet, Wilmington & Cape Fear lights with the Frying Pan Shoals Lightship. Continues down to the Georgetown & Charleston Lights, & the entrance to the Savannah River Lights & the Tybee Island Light & the St. Simons Sound Light in Georgia down to the entrance of the St. Johns River & St. Augustine in Florida and the Cape Canaveral Light & the Mosquito Inlet Light.

LH112 - 7th. Lighthouse District depicts all of the Florida Peninsula with lights at the entrance to all harbors around the coast. Includes the Dry Tortugas Harbor Light & the Key West Light, the Carysfort Reef Lights, & Jupiter Inlet Light & on the West Coast Cedar Keys Light & St. Marks River Light & Cape St. George Light.

LH113 - 8th Lighthouse District. Depicts the Gulf Coast from Pensacola Lt. Florida, to Mobile Bay Lt. Alabama, to the Mississippi Lighthouses on the islands and passes with the Mississippi River to New Orleans. Off the coast of Louisiana is the Trinity Shoal Lightship, Timballier Island Lt. & off the Texas coast is the Galveston Harbor light & the Galveston Lightship, Bolivar Point Light, Mstagorda Light, Aransas Pass Light, Corpus Christi Light, & Point Isabel Light at the border. 

LH114 - 10th. Lighthouse District (Great Lakes.) Depicts the Lighthouses all around Lakes Ontario and Erie. Includes the shorelines of Canada West, New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio. Shows Ogdensburg Lt, Erie Harbor Range Lights, Niagara Ft. Lights, Oswego Lights, Genesee Light, Horseshoe Reef Lights, Buffalo Lights, Dunkirk Lights, & Cleveland Lights. Corrected to June 30, 1882.

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LH115 - 11th. Lighthouse District (Great Lakes.) Depicts Michigan, Wisconsin & Upper Canada & the Lighthouses around the shores of Lakes Michigan, Lake Superior & Lake Huron. The Lighthouses are positioned at all the harbors, reefs, bays, points & islands. This is a fine chart of the Lakes corrected to June 30, 1880. 

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LH116 - 12th. Lighthouse District West Coast (California.) Depicts the Coast from Point Loma Light & Point Fermin Light to Santa Barbara, Point Pinos Light, Santa Cruz, Ano Nuevo Light, to Point Reyes Light, Point Arena, Cape Mendocino Lt, Humboldt Lt, & Crescent City Lt. Corrected to June 30, 1880. 

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LH117 - 13th. Lighthouse District (Pacific Northwest.) Depicts Oregon,& Washington from the Northern Boundary with California. Locates the Coast from Crescent City Light (Cal) to Cape Blanco (Oregon) to Cape Arago & Cape Perpetua Light, to Cape Foulweather Light, Tillamook Rock Light, St. Helen’s Bar Lights, Cape Disappointment Lt. (Wash) to Puget Sound & West Point Light, Admiralty Head Light & Vancouver Island. Includes the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Ediz Head Light, New Dungeness Lt. , Cape Flattery Lt & Shoalwater Bay Light. The area around Vancouver Island has many beacons & aids to navigation.

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LH118 - Lake Champlain. Depicts all the Lighthouses along the shores of the Lake starting at Lake George in the south to Windmill Point Lt. near the Northern Boundary. Includes an inset chart showing Whitehall Narrows from Old Maids Place Lt, to the lower end of 4 Channels Lt, to Chilson’s Bend Lt, Maple Bend Lt, Long Reach Lt, Steam Mill Point Lt, Carey’s Camp Lt, Benjamins Place Lt & Whitehall. Includes a mileage scale & a note that the chart was corrected up to June 30, 1880. 

LH119 - L. E. DABOLL “Chart Showing the Light Stations through long Island Sound from Block Island to New York. Adopted for Use in Daboll’s Almanac from U. S. Coast Survey Charts.” New York. 1897. Colored. Excellent chart depicts the Lighthouses from Watch Hill, Rhode island to Fisher’s Island, New London to Saybrook Point, New Haven to Stratford, Bridgeport, Stamford, Captain’s Island, Execution Rock & Sands Point. Continues to New York City & the Hudson River with Lighthouses from Peekskill down to Croton, Sing Sing, Tarrytown, Dobb’s Ferry & Yonkers. Includes the Lights along the north shore of Long Island to Montauk. The chart was sold through Darrow & Comstock, Ship Chandlers, New London, CT. Very detailed & in good condition. 

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